GREEN SPA THE ARKAN CE ON SAS RIVER!
HED S I U G N I T S I D D! O O H R O B H NEIG
E 3RD ST
WILLIAM J. CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL
E 4TH ST
WORLD AVE.
• $19 to $23 a square foot • 224,467 square feet at 1 Allied Drive on the Arkansas River • All utilities • 5 minutes to UAMS, 9 minutes to UALR
E 8TH ST
COLLEGE ST
COLLINS ST
E 6TH ST
PROPOSED SITE
VERIZON BUILDING 5
POSSIBLE EXPANSION
WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND PROPERTY • 10 acres between 6th and 8th streets southeast of Heifer International and the Clinton Library • $3.6 million • All utilities; fiber optics nearby • 3 minutes to ACH, 5 minutes to UAMS, 9 minutes to UALR There are some heavy hitters at bat for this property: Heifer International CEO Pierre Ferrari, Clinton Foundation executive director Stephanie Street, Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford, Acxiom senior vice president Jerry C. Jones and Rett Tucker of Moses-Tucker Real Estate, who jointly signed a letter to Mayor Mark Stodola and Authority board chair Dr. Mary Good expressing support for this alternative. Advantages: High visibility from interstate, quick access straight to partner institutions and interstate access to NCTR research park near Pine Bluff, 30 acres of adjacent land available for acquisition in future, low demolition costs, only one residential relocation required. It shares its downtown location with the Virginia Bio-Technology Research Park in Richmond, which the park Authority board refers to as a model for Little Rock.
RIVERFRONT PLAZA, BUILDINGS 2 AND 3 • $16 to $18 a square foot • 105,886 square feet at 1 Allied Drive • All utilities • 5 minutes to UAMS, 10 minutes to UALR UAMS Chancellor Dan Rahn has spoken approvingly of the former Alltel properties, both for the beauty of their location and the fact that they’re ready to move into. Advantages: These two properties (available for sale or lease by different realtors) combined would provide enough square footage for three buildings under the Authority’s plan, which plans to construct a 100,000-square-foot building in the first phase of development. They’re wired, a hill away from UAMS and on beautiful property on the Arkansas River. There is undeveloped acreage available on nearby Riverfront Drive, including 1.2 acres ($719,523) and 3.2 acres ($2 million), for expansion. The location would require a drive up a two-lane road to get to UAMS, but Rahn doesn’t think a distance restriction makes much sense anyway, since collaborators will be driving no matter what their destination … unless of course UAMS decided to make it possible for researchers to walk to the tech park, in which case the former Ray Winder Field, now owned by the university, would work. Residential relocation required: Zero.
RAY WINDER FIELD
THE PRICE IS RIGHT!
• 3.8 acres at Jonesboro Drive and Interstate 630 • Owned by UAMS • On the UAMS campus; 4 minutes to UALR OK, so three acres is too little, the Authority board has said, to accommodate future mushrooming of the technology park. So build up, supporters of this idea say. Advantages: Can be acquired at no cost, is on the UAMS campus, is a block away from the state Department of Health’s Public Health Laboratory, has high public visibility, and maybe UAMS could persuade the National Guard to sell the adjacent Ricks Armory, for another 3 acres. Residential relocation required: Zero.
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